Psychology Today | 10.08.2026 19:49
Famed psychoanalyst Margot Waddell wrote about “the eerie and upside-down world” of adolescent fiction in her 2018 book On Adolescence.1 She observed that fiction aimed at young adults often depicts two worlds: one in which the protagonists are fully involved in ordinary adolescent life, and another, alternative version of reality, furnished by uncertainty, guilt, sexual and destructive urges and peculiar, often violent experiences that they have to survive.
